The World Is Cancelled

a message comes through:
Prepare for the end of the world.
a hush falls, watching-the-iceberg kind of silence
babies are still being born
just to be snatched away
we’re biking in the middle of the street
rolling through red lights
throwing food out of windows
like a planet-wide mass shooting
reacts to an unexpected breakup
on valentines day
let’s go to a bar and burn it down
and drink in the flame engulfed seats
let’s jump out of airplanes
that are en route to Asian countries
so we can scream “we saw the earth!
WE SAW THE BEAUTIFUL SHAM
FROM A RAPIDLY ENDING HUMAN’S EYE VIEW
FALLING LIKE AN ANGEL SOON TO BE NOTHING
LIKE EVERYTHING I’VE EVER KNOWN
THROWN FROM THE UNKNOWN INTO ANOTHER UNKNOWN.”
no one will witness you, for once.
i’m leaving without you
throwing a couch from the seventh floor
just to watch the lavender ripple on cement
below, below the cocaine-oxycontin soup i shall enjoy
on my lovely beach facing porch
how i will run for the first time into the waves
not feeling the shark bites
ripping my meatlimbs to oblivion
i’ll smile, oh sweet Judas the shark.
happy showers of light in the dark.
gucci belts and prada boots
let’s make a collage out of the Declaration of Independence
let’s make it something to talk about
while we still have the time
grab the scissors and glue
we don’t have enough hours to paint anyone like a french girl
there are revolutions on our hands, long overdue.

*Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world *Percy Bysshe Shelley